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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

You're reading from   Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira A practical, no-code approach for Jira admins and power users to automate everyday processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562868
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gareth Cantrell Gareth Cantrell
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
2. Chapter 1: Key Concepts of Automation FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Automating Jira Issues 4. Section 2: Beyond the Basics
5. Chapter 3: Enhancing Rules with Smart Values 6. Chapter 4: Sending Automated Notifications 7. Chapter 5: Working with External Systems 8. Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation
9. Chapter 6: Automating Jira Service Management 10. Chapter 7: Automating Jira Software Projects 11. Chapter 8: Integrating with DevOps Tools 12. Chapter 9: Best Practices 13. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Tips and Techniques 14. Chapter 11: Beyond Automation; an Introduction to Scripting 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Thinking about performance

When planning automation rules for any system, you should ensure that they perform efficiently and do not consume more resources than absolutely necessary. This is essential to maintaining a well-behaved and responsive system.

You are introducing automation to enhance productivity and optimize time-consuming processes. The last thing you want is for the automation themselves to have a negative impact on the system performance.

The automation engine in Jira is designed to maximize performance wherever possible; however, there are some considerations you can take into account when authoring your rules to ensure they perform at their best. We'll take a look at some of these considerations in this section.

Using project-specific rules

The scope of a rule plays an important part when it comes to performance. It determines how many executions are initially queued for a given rule.

If you have 50 projects, for example, and a single global rule...

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